Christopher M. Barnes

About

Christopher M. Barnes is a Professor of Management and the Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. He earned his PhD from Michigan State University in 2009, an MPH from the University of Washington in 2024, an M.Sc. from the University of Oxford in 2022, an MBA from Webster University in 2003, and a BS from Pacific Lutheran University in 1999. His research focuses on emotions, ethics, human sustainability, leadership, organizational behavior, sleep, and teamwork. Barnes has held positions at the University of Washington since 2013, and prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His work explores the intersection of sleep, fatigue, and workplace performance, as well as leadership and ethical behavior, contributing significantly to understanding how sleep deprivation impacts social and organizational outcomes. He has received numerous awards and honors for his scholarly contributions, including being named a Fellow of the Society for Organizational Behavior and receiving the Responsible Research in Management Award.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Political Science
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Development economics
• Law
• Biology
• Social psychology
• Economics
• Cognitive psychology

Selected publications

• Sleep Loss and the Socio-Emotional Brain

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2020 · 229 citations

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• Sleep and social relationships in healthy populations: A systematic review

  Sleep Medicine Reviews · 2021 · 124 citations

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• The rise of COVID-19 cases is associated with support for world leaders

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 95 citations

  = 912,048), we find a strong and significant positive association between new daily confirmed and total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country and support for the heads of government. These analyses show that political leaders received a boost in approval in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, these findings suggest that the previously documented "rally 'round the flag" effect applies beyond just intergroup conflict.

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• Guiding principles for determining work shift duration and addressing the effects of work shift duration on performance, safety, and health: guidance from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society

  SLEEP · 2021-07-15 · 54 citations

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  Risks associated with fatigue that accumulates during work shifts have historically been managed through working time arrangements that specify fixed maximum durations of work shifts and minimum durations of time off. By themselves, such arrangements are not sufficient to curb risks to performance, safety, and health caused by misalignment between work schedules and the biological regulation of waking alertness and sleep. Science-based approaches for determining shift duration and mitigating ass…

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• Human Sustainability and Work: A Meta-Synthesis and New Theoretical Framework

  Journal of Management · 2022-10-31 · 47 citations

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  How can work be accomplished while sustaining the human capital that enables it? To date, research on this question has been piecemeal and indirect with different literatures and paradigms offering important but not integrated insights. In this meta-synthesis, we reviewed 368 meta-analyses and review articles published this millennium, sampled from the vast body of research relevant to employee health and well-being. We organize our review using dynamic energy budget theory (DEB), a life-science…

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Frequent coauthors

• David T. Wagner

  University of Oregon

  27 shared

• Cristiano L. Guarana

  14 shared

• Keith Leavitt

  Oregon State University

  14 shared

• Brent A. Scott

  Michigan State University

  8 shared

• John R. Hollenbeck

  8 shared

• Kai Chi Yam

  National University of Singapore

  8 shared

• Russell E. Johnson

  Michigan State University

  6 shared

• Klodiana Lanaj

  6 shared

Labs

• Foster School of BusinessPI

Education

• PhD, Management Department

  Michigan State University

  2009

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the Society for Organizational Behavior (2023)
• Best Reviewer Award (6 awarded among board members), Organiz…
• Faculty of the quarter (for teaching), MS Entrepreneurship p…
• Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award (mid-career research aw…
• Professor of the Week, awarded by Poets & Quants (2019)

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